6 June 2010
Mission Location: South of Ogallala, NE
Description:
CAMA-C deployed on two different cells south of Ogallala. All three teams deployed on the first cell that formed near Sydney, NE. The cell moved eastward and then SE as it matured into a supercell. All three teams photo documented a ragged wall cloud structure at low levels. Repeatedly, the storm would try to tighten up the circulation picking up dust from the ground. Scud would connect from the ground to cloud base. No funnels were observed. Multiple weak gustnado-like circulations were observed by the CAM teams.
CAMA deployed on the second target storm that ultimately passed over Ogallala. This deployment was with DOW 7 south of Ogallala on hwy 61. The storm was far to the NW (approximately 30 km at the start of the deployment). A wall cloud was visible early on and was tornado warned. CAMA did not see any funnel-like features with this storm. It subsequently gusted out.
HD video and DSLR imagery were collected by all three photogrammetry teams.
Deployment Sites:
CAMA:
Deployment 1: 40 deg, 54.065 min N; 101 deg, 43.846 min W (with NOXP; target storm 1)
Deployment 2: 40 deg, 45.575 min N; 101 deg, 39.954 min W (with DOW 5; target storm 1)
Deployment 3: 40 deg, 39.785 min N; 101 deg, 37.737 min W (with TTU Kband; target storm 1)
Deployment 4: 40 deg, 29.720 min N; 101 deg, 30.887 min W (with DOW 7; target storm 1)
Deployment 5: 41 deg, 3.847 min N; 101 deg, 43.227 min W (with DOW 7; target storm 2)
CAMB:
Deployment 1: 41 deg, 00 min, 45.62 sec N; 101 deg, 55 min, 09.60 sec W (with UMASS X)
Deployment 2: 40 deg, 44 min, 32.97 sec N; 101 deg, 38 min, 35.21 sec W (with DOW 7)
Deployment 3: 40 deg, 34 min, 00.82 sec N; 101 deg, 37 min, 44.04 sec w (with NOXP)
Deployment 4: 41 deg, 09 min, 49.07 sec N; 101 deg, 45 min, 31.30 sec W (with DOW 5)
CAMC
Deployment 1: 40 deg, 52.294 min N; 101 deg, 42.681 min W (with MWR)
Deployment 2: 40 deg, 44 min, 35.89 sec N; 101 deg, 42 min, 40.86 sec W (with MWR)
All photo and video times are in CDT (UTC -5).